Scienceworks Museum
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Scienceworks in Melbourne, Australia, and ScienceWorks in Ashland, Oregon, are museums dedicated to educating visitors in science and technology, while providing an entertaining destination for a family outing.
[edit] Scienceworks in Melbourne, Australia
Scienceworks, located in the suburb of Spotswood, has hands-on experiments, demonstrations, tours, activities, and constantly changing exhibits. Besides the many hands-on exhibits, one famous exhibit is the lighting room, which has 120 seats and has live shows that run for thirty minutes. It features the giant Tesla Coil, which when activated is capable of generating two million volts of electricity, producing three metre lightning bolts. No other science centre in the world has such an advanced electricity show. They also have the only digital planetarium in the southern hemisphere. It has a brand new surround sound system, reclining seats, and a 16 metre high dome ceiling.
General Information
- Address: 2 Booker Street, Spotswood, Victoria, Australia
- Hours: 10:00am - 4:30pm daily. Closed Christmas Day and Good Friday
[edit] ScienceWorks in Ashland, Oregon
ScienceWorks is a fun place for people of all ages to attend, whether it be to bring your child in to learn how to stick their hand through a gigantic bubble, to seeing a demonstration of lighting a dollar on fire and seeing it not burn. ScienceWorks exhibits from Ashland have received national and international attention and have been sold to the Singapore Science Center, Technopolis in Belgium, Miami Museum of Science, TELUS World of Science, Calgary and many museums in the U.S. Most of the exhibits are built in-house at their state-of-the-art fabrication center. They include the Shadow Wall, where you can pose in front of the wall, and watch the strobe light capture your shadow. There is the bubble-ology room, where you can surround yourself with a bubble, stick your arm through a bubble without it breaking, and make long bubble tubes. Make an Impression is a 5-foot high wall made of 65,000 plastic "pins." Push up against it and you'll get an impression of your face, hands, or entire body in any pose you desire.
General Information
- Address: 1500 East Main Street, Ashland, Oregon
- Hours: Wednesday through Saturday 10am - 4pm and Sunday 12pm - 4pm. Closed on major holidays.
